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Very, very bad day!!!

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Woke up this morning to water sopping my carpeted office floor. the 90 has sprung a leak. I have no idea where. It's not on the bottom because the stand is dry and it's also dry inside the cabinet.
just spent the last half hour draining tank and netting fish and getting a filter set up on a large tupper ware container. off to get a new 90 gal tank within a few hours.

this was a used tank that had been patched on the bottom . so I am NOt trying to fix it. I'm getting a new tank. petco and petsmart both have sales on right now. i'll call around and see what the best deal is.
do i have to worry about my bb dying in my canister if it's off for several hours? or if I keep it wet will it be okay? I figure it's going to be close to 5 or 6 pm before I can get everything set up again and it's 9:30 am now.....

arrrggg. so far no luck finding a tank. biggest are 50 gal in stock at pet co and pet smart. waiting for two indies to open and keeping fingers crossed.
I cannot imagine where the leak is. the cabinet is dry inside but the floor all the way around the tank is wet and about 2 inches of water must have leaked out over the past 2 days. i could not find any lose hoses.
If I end up having to patch, what is involved in resilisoning? just go around the edge of each seam with clear silicone calk? is there a special calk or will bathtub calk work? ??? how long does it take to dry? Could I have this up and running again by tonight?